The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 17 for ARM. Included are prebuilt images for QEMU, Trimslice, Beagleboard XM and iMX based hardware platforms . In our final stage of development the ARM team will focus on a few remaining issues with the Pandaboard with the final release including support for this popular device. We invite you to join us in making Fedora 17 for ARM a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable feedback.

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The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 17 for ARM. Included are prebuilt images for QEMU, Trimslice, Beagleboard XM and iMX based hardware platforms . In our final stage of development the ARM team will focus on a few remaining issues with the Pandaboard, our final release will include support for this popular device. We invite you to join us in making Fedora 17 for ARM a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable feedback.

What is the Beta release?

The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 17 for ARM. Included are prebuilt images for QEMU, Trimslice, Beagleboard XM and iMX based hardware platforms . In our final stage of development the ARM team will focus on a few remaining issues with the Pandaboard, our final release will include support for this popular device. We invite you to join us in making Fedora 17 for ARM a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable feedback.

Featured Images

Below is a list of currently supplied prebuilt images for the Fedora 17 ARM beta release.

This is a Fedora 17 Hard Float Trimslice Image suitable for writing to an SD card and placed in the Trimslice's Full Size SD slot (Front slot) and booting without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/mmcblkX, put in the device, and you're ready to go. Boots to a serial console.

This is a Fedora 17 Hard Float Trimslice Image suitable for writing to a Trimslice's internal SSD or Hard Drive and booting without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/sdX, put in the device, and you're ready to go. Boots to a serial console.

This is a Fedora 17 Soft Float Beagleboard XM Image suitable for writing to an sdcard and booting without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/mmcblkX, put in the device, and you're ready to go. Boots to a serial console.

This is a Fedora 17 Hard Float iMX Image suitable for writing to an sdcard and booting on devices like the Efika Smarttop without further modification. Write with xzcat file.xz > /dev/mmcblkX, put in the device, and you're ready to go. Boots to a serial console. This kernel does *not* provide a framebuffer or work with X.

This is a Fedora 17 Soft Float Versatile Express Image suitable for booting with qemu-system-arm without further modification. Requires an external kernel and initrd on the qemu command line; all of which is provided by the kernel file link (Or you can extract them from the main image). Boots to a serial console.

This is a Fedora 17 Soft Float Versatile Express + Minimal X Image suitable for booting with qemu-system-arm without further modification. Requires an external kernel and initrd on the qemu command line; all of which is provided by the kernel file link (or you can extract them from the main image). Boots to X GUI.

This is a Fedora 17 Soft Float Versatile Express + XFCE Image suitable for booting with qemu-system-arm without further modification. Requires an external kernel and initrd on the qemu command line; all of which is provided by the kernel file link (or you can extract them from the main image). Boots to full XFCE GUI.

Known Issues

Currently there is an issue with the Fedora 17 Kernel on the popular Pandaboard. This will be fixed before our final release of Fedora 17.

Contributing to Fedora ARM

Please join us on the IRC in #fedora-arm on Freenode or on our mailing list arm@lists.fedoraproject.org.
For more information on common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes:

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